> There are very real and very severe physical effects of alcohol addiction, so the two are in no way comparable. I didn't name any physical effects. I did com

> There are very real and very severe physical effects of alcohol addiction, so the two are in no way comparable. I didn't name any physical effects. I did compare emotional and interpersonal effects of Candy Crush/gambling to those of alcoholism, so unless you disagree with those specific comparisons, gaming addiction is by definition comparable, in at least a few ways. I get your point, but I reject the GP's and your implication that gaming addiction is almost benign because it has no physical effects, or that we have to choose between two evils here, or that malicious marketers of alcohol (maybe tobacco would be a better one here) and deliberate designers of addictive games aren't both morally culpable for hurting people. (And on the physical effects, I wonder if gaming can alter brain chemistry enough that there actually could be physical effects... I don't know enough about it. Here's something from the article along those lines: "According to Eyal, checking in delivers a hit of dopamine to the brain, along with the craving for another hit.")